Hi all.
I was wondering what I might do to queue up mail coming in
for users with id's beginning w/ say b or q while
maintenance (planned or unplanned) was done on the
storage that holds their email. Other mail would be processed
as usual w/o delay...
We have a script to simulate "no mail" to fake out pop sessions
but I'd like to prevent bounces for email coming in to these users.
I had thought about maybe a simple control file to hold bad first
characters and returning a 4XX error to the sender to defer the
mail for a while until the storage is back online and we can clear
the control file and accept mail for the users again.
drawbacks:
1) I have to do a small bit of coding
2) Broken Microsoft SMTP servers which begin to chatter when
given a 451 (for stray line feeds).
but 2) may not be a problem as the storage should be back
online w/in a couple of hours after an outage long before the chattering
becomes too nasty.
Does anyone have a non-coding alternative?
Michael Boyiazis -----
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